Wayne Shorter never rested on his or anyone's laurels. So when at the start of this perilous century he convened his great, late-stage quartet with pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci, and ...

In 2000, three years short of entering his eighth decade on this planet—a place of origin which at times seemed questionable, though he made less fuss about it than Sun Ra—Wayne Shorter finally did ...